Quadibloc:
The People's Republic of China is a dictatorship. Thus, terrible
things happen there to innocent people all the time, and there is no
recourse; and to survive there for any length of time, one has to be
willing to be complicit in that.

The PRC is a dictatorship of predatory capitalism (is there any other
kind?). The greed of capitalists has no limits, and their willingness
to enslave and murder in the pursuit of profit is unbounded. Pretty
much like what the right wants for the USA.

Despite economic progress, life behind the Bamboo Curtain in Hu
Jintao's China is still a nightmare, just as it was in Khruschev's and
Brezhnev's and Andropov's and Chernenko's Russia in addition to
Stalin's Russia.

I have been in the PRC and I would not go so far to say that life there
is a nightmare in general, at least no more than one would expect from
the most extreme form of capitalists that run the place.

Those who have the good fortune to live in a country where freedom and
justice reign, where injustices can be openly discussed, so that the
people can work to right them... should not throw that away.

Yes, I used to live in a country like that. Now, however, those who
favor freedom (of or from religion, e.g.) and justice are vilified.
"Not real Americans." "America haters." "Want the terrorists to win."
"Socialists." "Communists."

Davoud

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